16 years smoking for me. Started late at 22 years old, drinking at the bars, foolishly felt cool for smoking. Thought I could do what my parents couldn't and control it (I always hated the smell of smoke as a child). Stopped at 38 years old.

More important than how long I smoked is that I'm coming up on 3 months quit going on the rest of my life.

£26,627.60 bloody pennies at today's prices.... and you think all yous lot are idiots??!?!?!?!?!!!!!.....

NOPE!.... never no bloody more!

​I paid less than this for my house.... blithering idiot...

Older than dust.......

Stopped smoking for 2nd time 20th Dec 2017 @ 17:45pm after putting out my last fag! Was 9mths, 2wks, 5days, 1hr and 31 minutes previously, and had saved £3,085 approximately.... Crikey... what did I do with all that money.... All I know is that I spent it!!

Not One Puff Ever again.....

Cigarettes were never the anchors in our lives that hold us steady.... they were the ropes that kept us tied to the dock while life sailed by! - jwg

It is not because you quit...it is because you smoked. It will pass! - Nancy

Started at 17 quit at 28 started again at 35 quit again at 54 averaged a pack a day. Nearly 3 years now since my last cig.
Living my life now free of smoking but will always worry how much I have damaged my health.

First tried cigarettes in middle school. Became a regular smoker at age 18, while in college. Smoked ever-increasing amounts, averaging around a pack a day or a tad more, until age 35. Quit 6 days ago and never starting again, if i have anything to say about it! Oh wait, I do! Nope!

I started smoking at 16 I am now 64. A heck of a long time. I smoked a pack a day (at least) everyday. I had my last cigy on Christmasday 2017. My only consolation is while i am sure I must have some form of COPD I am still very fit.

Started at 18 when I joined the military. The Training Instructor would tell other women to give me a cigarette, then light my cigarette, then the Training Instructor would laugh as I coughed and coughed......at first. After 6 weeks of this I was hooked. Smoked about a half a pack for 39 years. Never missed a day!

My son got engaged New Years Eve 2016 and I decided then I would be a non-smoker by the time he got married as I didn’t want to miss a moment or have a thought about smoking that day. I quit in April and on my son’s wedding day I was 6 months Smoke Free!!!